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Confederate (CSV)

Lieutenant

Joseph Benjamin Barrett

(1831 - 1862)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 27th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 28 year old merchant in Marlboro, Pitt County, NC. He enrolled there and was elected First Lieutenant of Company E, 27th North Carolina Infantry on 20 April 1861.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

His father Josiah filed for his final pay of $141.00 in November 1863.

References & notes

His service from Wilson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His memorial is on Findagrave.

Birth

05/26/1831; Pitt County, NC

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Barrett - Bynum Cemetery, Farmville, NC

Notes

1 Wilson, William P., Adjutant, Casualty list of the 27th N.C.S.T. at Sharpsburg, North Carolina Standard, 1862-10-15 [AotW citation 9890]

2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 30067]

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